Kimble is again in a rural location, (probably easier to both hide and escape), but gets recognized and is being pursued across the countryside by two men: a deputy sheriff with a helicopter, (Don Gordon) and a retired sheriff on foot, (Arthur O'Connell). O'Connell who normally plays rather feeble characters but here is a tough old bird who can't be under-estimated, gets to him first. His one weakness is a heart problem. His back story is that he lost his job as a sheriff when he listened to a prisoner's plea that he was innocent and let him escape. They guy was a liar and a murderer and went on to kill a couple more people before he was caught. He finds he likes Kimble but his new prisoner's pleas of innocence fall on deaf ears.
O'Connell doesn't like Gordon, an ambitious younger man who mocks O'Connell as a failure. Like O'Connell, Gordon wants to make his reputation, (restore in it O'Connell's case) by bringing in Kimble. Unlike O'Connell, he'd just as soon bring him in dead as alive, seeing no difference between the two.
At one point Kimble gets shot and goes down like a fallen tree, lying motionless. He's not dead, (the series didn't end with this episode). We find out that he was shot in the leg. Yet he's still able to overpower the deputy and escape with no discernible limp. Ironically, he has a limp at the beginning of the next episode.
O'Connell doesn't like Gordon, an ambitious younger man who mocks O'Connell as a failure. Like O'Connell, Gordon wants to make his reputation, (restore in it O'Connell's case) by bringing in Kimble. Unlike O'Connell, he'd just as soon bring him in dead as alive, seeing no difference between the two.
At one point Kimble gets shot and goes down like a fallen tree, lying motionless. He's not dead, (the series didn't end with this episode). We find out that he was shot in the leg. Yet he's still able to overpower the deputy and escape with no discernible limp. Ironically, he has a limp at the beginning of the next episode.